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I don't like writing  things that I don't think are particularly good.  I'd absolutely love it if there were some way to write a book or a story or a poem or an essay or a paper or really anything without going through the awkward first draft stage.  I hate first drafts.  I wrote a poem once about revision that focused on the fact that "the first draft of anything is shit."  (I think that might be a Hemingway quote, though I'm not fully sure.)

I should stop complaining and start writing, but I really don't feel like it.  I should beat myself up because it doesn't matter what I feel like doing, it matters what I have to do, and I have to write this by Wednesday, and this is just procrastination.  And I'm gonna stop right now.